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COMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Jun 29, 2023

To disclose

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Affected

2state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for COMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. →

Community Research Foundation reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2023-06-29. 2 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

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Leak gap clock✗ Leak >180d

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jun 29, 2023

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by alphv about this victim predates this filing by 225 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitealphvbd_89acd6c85baa9ce62022-11-16 · +225dVerified by operator

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_04ccb7b8d369e6282023-06-29Candidate
California State AGbd_090a863c4f2966f22023-06-29Verified
HHS OCRbd_b03b7dc8312f0b352023-06-20 · +9dVerified

Name: COMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
norm: community research

Name: COMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
norm: community research

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Stated not affected: Financial account numberDriver's licence numberPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: Leak >180dMA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 3 states

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HHS OCRJun 20 · first

Indiana State AG+9d

California State AG+9d

Massachusetts State AG+9d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jun 20 (CA), last Jun 29 (MA) — a 9-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2023/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2023
Raw hash: 682305cf1153ff2ea607ebf117ad56420039d108160031c7afe4be3c9c5d3f81

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCOMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

Victim entityCOMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceLeak >180d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov